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- Ian Frazier's new collection of humor essays hits the mark - Daily Herald
Ian Frazier's new collection of humor essays hits the markDaily Herald, UT - 9 minutes agoThe title "The New Poetry," for example, could be ripped from the hand-cut pages of any one of several dozen little magazines. ...
- Poet to sign copies of book - Van Buren Press Argus-Courier
Poet to sign copies of bookVan Buren Press Argus-Courier, AR - 22 minutes agoHe discovered the Japanese forms of poetry called haiku and tanka, which traditionally have a specific number of syllables per line. ...
- Imagining the Pentagon Under a New President (NPR)
The next president will be the first in 40 years to inherit the Pentagon during wartime. While the two candidates' foreign policy advisers both advocate greater accountability at the Pentagon, they disagree on how to handle Iraq.
- Letters Editor Paul Russell: Say nothing but good of the dead; enough ... - Nationalpost.com
Are there any original arguments to be made in the Henry Morgentaler/ abortion/Order of Canada debate? Readers seem to think so, as this topic dominated the National Post letters file again this week. Of the more than 130 letters on this subject ...
- Fairy Spring opened in 1937 - Oneonta Daily Star
Fairy Spring opened in 1937Oneonta Daily Star, NY - May 19, 2008"The magnificent spring from which the park takes its name, famed in legend and sung in poetry, has been protected by a proper covering and the water ...
- Gowdy's Helpless wins Trillium Book Award - CBC.ca
Gowdy's Helpless wins Trillium Book AwardCBC.ca, Canada - 2 hours agoPoet Rachel Zolf, also of Toronto, won the $10000 English-language poetry award for her collection Human Resources. Pierre Raphaël Pelletier won the $20000 ...
- 17th annual festival gives an essence of Africa to Forest Park - St. Louis American
17th annual festival gives an essence of Africa to Forest ParkSt. Louis American, MO - 2 hours agoConcerts, storytelling, craft making, dance and poetry are just some of what this year’s festival has to offer - and in many cases guests have an ...
- Education's not finished, BC grads told - Boston Globe
In a heartfelt ode to the power and joys of education, acclaimed historian David McCullough exhorted Boston College graduates yesterday to "make the love of learning central to your life." In his keynote address at the college's commencement on its ...
- Ben Jelloun joins the Goncourt (Al-Ahram Weekly)
Moroccan novelist Tahar Ben Jelloun, a well-known figure in both Moroccan and French cultural circles, took a step closer to the heart of the French literary establishment early last month when he was elected a member of the jury of the Prix Goncourt, France's most prestigious literary prize and one of Europe's oldest.
- A cup of poetry (Plymouth Observer)
"It is difficult/to get the news from poems/yet men die miserably every day/for lack/of what is found there."
- Poet laureate brings poets, poetry lovers together - West Hartford News
Poet laureate brings poets, poetry lovers togetherWest Hartford News, CT - 2 hours agoSassi is also working on a poem she would like to give to West Hartford as her tenure ends, in April next year. Sassi said she believes the West Hartford ...
- Maya Angelou throws herself at life - Akron Beacon Journal
Blogs: Akrocentric: Poem: "The Inevitable," by Allan Peterson, from Ted Kooser's American Life in Poetry column Akron Aeros: Goleski gets a little too close for comfort
- Black Infiniti (Baltimore City Paper)
Adele V. Holden painted the Eastern Shore town where she grew up with these words in the poem "Patchworks of our lives." The poem, in its entirety, opened her memoir, Down on the Shore: The Family and Place That Forged a Poet's Voice , which I published in 2000.
- National HIV Testing Day held - Mid-Hudson News Network
NEWBURGH – To mark National HIV Testing Day, the Greater Hudson Valley Family Health Center Thursday conducted a free testing clinic, distributed literature and held an annual day of entertainment, music, food, and poetry readings. Center HIV-AIDS ...
- Students read poetry at Stell coffee shop - Redlands Daily Facts
Students read poetry at Stell coffee shopRedlands Daily Facts, CA - 15 minutes ago... reading their poetry and drinking free hot chocolate, courtesy of the managers. A few of the topics students chose were chocolate, war, and family. ...
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